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...ship Tampa. Like the hundreds who drowned off Java, many of the refugees aboard the Tampa had passed through Malaysia on their way to Indonesia to board the ship. There has been talk in recent weeks in Kuala Lumpur of a variety of measures that might be taken to plug the holes through which the flow of refugees pours?a temporary amnesty, a move to limit visa-free entry to certain countries?but so far no action...
...With luck, the deaths and suffering of so many will push governments to plug some of the holes that allow refugees to set out from Indonesia packed into rickety fishing boats. No one should have to suffer like Rokaya, sitting off to one side by herself in a white plastic chair, looking down at the dirty floor tiles, seeing nothing but the faces of her lost children...
Davis said other potential causes of the problem could have been an Ethernet cable manufactured with a incorrectly sized plug, a likely faulty hub, old wiring from the basement that connects the user’s computer to the network and the possibility of a bad plug on the power switch itself...
More evidence that XP is smart: plug in a digital camera, and the operating system "knows" you probably want to store photos. The My Pictures folder is automatically called up. Retrieve a photo from it, and at the click of a button, make it e-mail ready; this is what we do with photos on computers, after all. Even error messages are simpler...
...Night Owl program is seen as the litmus test on whether late-night public transportation will be economically viable in Boston. Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation Kevin J. Sullivan said that the objective of the pilot program was “not looking for ways to pull the plug,” but rather to gauge demand...